A former top adviser to Barack Obama was among the list of public relations professionals and lawyers consulting Harvey Weinstein over a major New York Times story, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Anita Dunn, a top Obama campaign staffer and former White House communications director, helped offer damage control advice for the Hollywood mogul.
On Thursday afternoon, the New York Times published a major investigation into Weinstein that features on-the-record claims of sexual harassment, including from actor Ashley Judd.
The Hollywood Reporter and Variety reported Wednesday that the Times was working on the story on Weinstein’s personal “behavior." The two Hollywood trade outlets also reported that NBC News' Ronan Farrow is working on a piece about Weinstein for the New Yorker. ... Sources said that Lanny Davis, former special counsel to Bill Clinton, has been central to the PR effort for Weinstein, who is a major Democratic donor. Dunn, for her part, is the managing director of SKDKnickerbocker, a Washington public affairs firm with deep ties to Democratic politics. She was communications director for Obama’s 2008 campaign and served briefly in his administration.
Weinstein’s legal team is also a murderer’s row of high-profile names, according to Variety and THR: David Boies, Lisa Bloom (who helped bring down Bill O’Reilly), and Charles Harder (who helped Hulk Hogan fell Gawker).
Weinstein responded to the Times story with a statement: “I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it. Though I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go.” https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein?utm_term=.lpe4w6jV5#.qnPaOx9n0 Let's sit back and watch all the Hollywood and Media Stars and Members of the Obama Entourage who made a big deal out of "Grab the Vagina" start criticizing Weinstein as loudly and as vociferously. Ha!
It's really similar to the Reign of Terror in many ways. Faster and faster accusations without proof, followed by beheadings, finally culminating in the beheadings of those who started it all.
The whole point of sexual harassment complaint mechanisms is to give women the option to selectively enforce laws according to their whims and taste in men.
It has almost nothing to do with the actual behavior of men, which is pretty much constant by biological necessity (or else we simply would not be here to write and read these lines).
It's about expanding female power to use male power (police, courts, corporations) to maximize female sexual choice at the expense of most men. Women get to keep away the pathetic beta hordes and yet remain free to fling their maximum sexual provocation toward the very top of the male hierarchy, After sleeping with the the VP, or SVP, or CEO, they also want the option to call it harassment on his part if he doesn't call them back the next day.
It's a clever strategy. Who can argue in favor of "harassment"? No one. The problem is that the definition is so subjective and unevenly enforced that every single woman gets to define harassment in a way that personally benefits her the most.
It's only the masses of ordinary men who are being harassed these days. They should stop putting up with it.
Cute, but even though Barack Obama did give the Medal of Freedom to Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby, he did not give it to Anthony Wiener or Harvey Weinstein. Barack did give it to Ted Kennedy though, so you could add Ted to that meme.
Anita Dunn, a top Obama campaign staffer and former White House communications director, helped offer damage control advice for the Hollywood mogul.
On Thursday afternoon, the New York Times published a major investigation into Weinstein that features on-the-record claims of sexual harassment, including from actor Ashley Judd.
The Hollywood Reporter and Variety reported Wednesday that the Times was working on the story on Weinstein’s personal “behavior." The two Hollywood trade outlets also reported that NBC News' Ronan Farrow is working on a piece about Weinstein for the New Yorker.
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Sources said that Lanny Davis, former special counsel to Bill Clinton, has been central to the PR effort for Weinstein, who is a major Democratic donor. Dunn, for her part, is the managing director of SKDKnickerbocker, a Washington public affairs firm with deep ties to Democratic politics. She was communications director for Obama’s 2008 campaign and served briefly in his administration.
Weinstein’s legal team is also a murderer’s row of high-profile names, according to Variety and THR: David Boies, Lisa Bloom (who helped bring down Bill O’Reilly), and Charles Harder (who helped Hulk Hogan fell Gawker).
Weinstein responded to the Times story with a statement: “I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it. Though I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein?utm_term=.lpe4w6jV5#.qnPaOx9n0
Let's sit back and watch all the Hollywood and Media Stars and Members of the Obama Entourage who made a big deal out of "Grab the Vagina" start criticizing Weinstein as loudly and as vociferously. Ha!